32/3 to 3 7/8 in head; eye 6 te 6 1/5; maxillary 3; inter- 
orbital 3 1/5 to 33. 
Body rather ovoid, compressed, with elevated convex 
pack: caudal peduncle long as deep or least depth 5 to 3 2/5 
in head. Head width 1 7/8 to 1 9/10 its length. Snout 
broadly convex, length 1 1/8 to 11/6 its width. Eye rounded, 
hind pupil edge at first third in head, Mouth small, lower 
jaw included. Maxillary to eye center; expansion 1 5/6 te 2 
in eye. Broad bands of simple conic crowded teeth in jaws, 
outer upper row little larger, curved and slightly compressed. 
Lips broad, largely papillose. Snout tipwith 6 pores in 2 rows 
and slit at end of each row each side in front; chin with 6 
deep pores, last longest. Nostrils large, close before eye, 
in last half of snout and hind one not quite twice front one, 
Interorbital strongly convex, Preopercle edge membraneous; 
opercle with broad membraneous flap above; suprascapula entire, 
scaled, 
Rakers v-ix, rudimentary low broad asperous tubercles; 
filaments equal eyes ocales ctenoid, in oblique rows, smaller 
along body edges, become minute on breast; fins more or less 
covered with minute scales, at least basally, except spinous 
dorsal and inner surfaces of paired fins; basal striae 5 to 7} 
apical denticles 36 te 44; circuli fine; cheek scales scarcely 
ctenoid, about 10 rows to preopercle angle, of which second, 
third anal and last rows enlarged; 6 rows on preopercle flange, 
